The ghost farms choking Greece’s coastline

Greece’s coastline is dotted with abandoned aquaculture sites. The giant rings and other decaying infrastructure are poisoning the sea and local economy with microplastic and huge plastic waste. We accompanied a Greek NGO trying to banish these ghost farms. #PlanetA #fishfarming #pollution #greece Credits: Reporter: Adam Baheej Adada Camera: Manuel Vering Supervising Editors: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer, Michael Trobridge Video Editing and Animation: Adam Baheej Adada Factcheck: Alexander Paquet Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Chapters: 00:00 The mystery rings 01:00 Visiting the farm 02:35 A coastline full of plastic 05:21 Diving in 07:07 The lawsuit 08:24 A growing industry 09:37 The legacy Read more: AKTAIA (NGO): Planned expansion of fish farming in Greece https://aktaia.org/en/what-is-poay/ Research on floating marine debris in Northern Chilean Patagonia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X21004069?via=ihub NOAA: What is ghost fishing? https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ghostfishing.html Ghost farms across the world https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/from-chile-to-greece-ghost-gear-from-fish-farms-haunts-the-seas/ We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dw_planeta?la...